Help Market no longer recognizes my Apps!?

[jamor]

So I did an ASTRO backup of all my apps downloaded from the market in 2.1

I did did a complete wipe, performed the 2.2 OTA, and did a factory reset after that.

After successfully loading 2.2, I went to the market and downloaded a few new apps. Those show up under downloads and update notifications come up when necessary.

HOWEVER.

I then downloaded Astro from the market, loaded Astro and then loaded all of the apps I backed up (and rebooted my phone).

Problem:

None of these apps I restored show up in the market under menu>downloads..

Even worse, when I search for an installed app that I backed up from Astro, it doesn't recognize it as installed and still gives me the option to download and install it even though I already have it.

This means that I will never get notifications to update for these apps which is important to me.

Is there any way around this - has anybody else run into this problem? I haven't seen anyone else with this problem...

I fear ASTRO is useless because of this and that I will have to uninstall all of my apps and just download them fresh so that I can be notified of updates.

Thanks in advance.

 

[jamor]

^^

 

[ramcharger1979]

Same here with backup pro. It does notice the apps when they need updated.

 

[jamor]

Same here with backup pro. It does notice the apps when they need updated.

When does it notice? When you open it?

 

[ramcharger1979]

When does it notice? When you open it?

It started to notice them showing up after they get updated. They market knows they are there even if it does not list them.

 

[iowabowtech]

Yeah, this is fairly well documented although I just found out about it awhile back also. It seems about the only thing that works consistently well is Titanium.

The paid version of Titanium has a Market Doctor which repairs broken market links once all apps are backed up. I'm guessing Joel probably put that in there for this very occasion. Might be a good way to avoid having to re-install all apps if you're interested in a long term solution.

 

[jamor]

Yeah, this is fairly well documented although I just found out about it awhile back also. It seems about the only thing that works consistently well is Titanium.

The paid version of Titanium has a Market Doctor which repairs broken market links once all apps are backed up. I'm guessing Joel probably put that in there for this very occasion. Might be a good way to avoid having to re-install all apps if you're interested in a long term solution.

Ahh.. I wonder how I missed that. Everyone touted Astro so highly.. but this is a fatal flaw in my opinion.

Good thing is I do have a Titanium Backup. I can't use it until I re-root (which I will do this week).

For now I'm going to uninstall all of the apps I restored through Astro. What a pain. Thank god I didn't pay for the full version.

I guess it's good for one thing - apps that you DON'T want updated like free Shazam 1.0, etc.

 

[iowabowtech]

I guess it's good for one thing - apps that you DON'T want updated like free Shazam 1.0, etc.

Yep, exactly. That and a general use file manager for accessing, copying, pasting, viewing, etc is all I've found it good for.

 

[Bob Denny]

This works on 2.2 and 2.1u1:

Call *#*#2432546#*#* (*#*#checkin#*#*)
See message "checkin successful"
Reboot
Check the Market.
Repeat till it works (may just take a long time!!!)

Restored apps from Astro backup, now all OK.